- Nov 17, 2013
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my current home machine (which i primarily use for work / trading) is this:
i5-3570k
ASRock Z77 Extreme 3 board
stock clocking (no OC - yet)
8G of DDR3-1600 ram
Win8.1 on 128G SSD
many storage hard drives
here's the tough part - i run 8 monitors (2 landscape + 6 portrait), which means i have 3 cards installed: two GT640's and a GT610. and i'm using the i5's graphics as well but only because the cards don't support UEFI boot screens.
since the CPU and mobo are probably great for a gaming setup, and i'm already on an SSD and have plenty of hard drive space, i COULD move the cards around and drop in some kick-ass gaming graphics card in the first slot, keeping the GT640 cards in the 2nd and 3rd slot.
how bad (negatively speaking) would this be? like, if i were to run a GTX760 to one screen, and a GT640 to 4 screens, and the last GT640 to 3 screens. the 760 would come from another build that i have.
or - i could have the 760 drive 3 portrait screens, and the GT640's driving the remaining 5 screens.
thoughts? (assume the psu is sufficient or will get replaced if needed)
i5-3570k
ASRock Z77 Extreme 3 board
stock clocking (no OC - yet)
8G of DDR3-1600 ram
Win8.1 on 128G SSD
many storage hard drives
here's the tough part - i run 8 monitors (2 landscape + 6 portrait), which means i have 3 cards installed: two GT640's and a GT610. and i'm using the i5's graphics as well but only because the cards don't support UEFI boot screens.
since the CPU and mobo are probably great for a gaming setup, and i'm already on an SSD and have plenty of hard drive space, i COULD move the cards around and drop in some kick-ass gaming graphics card in the first slot, keeping the GT640 cards in the 2nd and 3rd slot.
how bad (negatively speaking) would this be? like, if i were to run a GTX760 to one screen, and a GT640 to 4 screens, and the last GT640 to 3 screens. the 760 would come from another build that i have.
or - i could have the 760 drive 3 portrait screens, and the GT640's driving the remaining 5 screens.
thoughts? (assume the psu is sufficient or will get replaced if needed)
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